Why is soccer not the biggest in america?

[Pat McCrotch]

yet it is the biggest sport on the planet by a country mile?

nfl is good, nba is good, but mlb?

[Dirty Sanchez]

Many would argue it's strictly a $$ issue....on many levels. It goes from kids knowing where they can make the big bucks, and soccer falls behind many more popular sports in the US, where in poorer countries it's the only sport and is followed more closely

[nosniboR11]

soccer , lolol.olol

[milwaukee mike]

poor countries they don't have much to eat

so they relate to a bunch of skinny guys running around

here in the u.s. we are fat and lazy - relate more to prince fielder

[darkhat]

It's the same reason the second most popular sport in other countries is chase the goat.

[iifold]

Don't worry, Soccer will be #1 here soon too...

Keep voting for guys like Obama and supporting occupy movements...

Everyone will be playing dominoes for EBT credit, driving around in beat up Honda's...

[darkhat]

Obama is such a joke, most people are too stupid to vote for Ron Paul. End. The. Fed.

[decado]

yanks can't stand watching 2x45min without a break. they need a fix for every play, and an insane amount of advertising crap. so americans can't stand watching 90 minutes nonsense ballkicking on a field with zero, one or two goals happening.

honestly, every american sport is driven by getting points and a potential hit every second or every play. every football play can result in a potential TD, INT or whatever, baseball in hits and homeruns, hoops is fast paced and have high scores.

i think there's already a huge thread about this topic on sbr. must be in player talk section.

[hels]

It's the same reason the second most popular sport in other countries is chase the goat.

With the third most popular, chase the mouse.

[nosniboR11]

Don't worry, Soccer will be #1 here soon too... Keep voting for guys like Obama and supporting occupy movements... Everyone will be playing dominoes for EBT credit, driving around in beat up Honda's...

watch out iifold is on FIRE

[darkhat]

With the third most popular, chase the mouse.

and the 4th, swat the flies.

[Inkwell77]

Baseball is seriously a terrible sport to play and watch.

Soccer is growing in the us and will pass baseball. Soccer is big in more cultured US cities and will continue to get bigger. Young married couples with money and kids have their kids play soccer, not baseball. Much more exciting to go to a quality soccer match. People that have been to both know. Most people in America have never been to a quality soccer match with passionate fans.

[TR88]

[darkhat]

[hels]

and the 4th, swat the flies.

With the fifth, find the dead person.

[hels]

Nice post pal, funnier with the Mexican announcer though.

[FourLengthsClear]

American sports developed at times when the US was very much 'isolationist'.

As DS mentioned, there has been no real incentive for top US athletes to consider soccer due to the economic rewards on offer and the much more accessible routes in their 'own sports'.

The 'poor countries' argument doesn't stack up. American football derived from Rubgy and Soccer which at the time was only played in the UK which was a far richer country than the US at that time. Likewise basketball is the only true American (major) sport and only needed a ball and a couple of peach baskets to play. Baseball doesn't need any more or less equipment than cricket which is by far the biggest sport in India.

[darkhat]

I know, I stopped looking for the one with the announcer when I realized how smart I was for taking St. Johns in eleventeen parlays.

[jjgold]

Even betting wise..soccer is 100x bigger than NFL betting

[8ArIvd5]

Incorporate a shot clock and take away offsides and it would be salable.

[darkhat]

They should add something to soccer to make it more exciting though, like a free blow job for every game you watch.

[FourLengthsClear]

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We can all play that game, pal.



Sadly the more unbiased and truthful image would be this one!

[Fieldysnuts44]

I wish they wouldn't let it be a sport in the U.S.I hated it when my kids played before they could play real football and they would have it every Sunday during NFL games.What the fukk,like it's cram this shit down there throats and fukk up everyone watching real football.

[FourLengthsClear]

Incorporate a shot clock and take away offsides and it would be salable.

LOL. It was tried as a charity exhibition once. Both teams just loaded up the box with 5 or 6 attackers and hit long balls with the midfield totally vacated. Even what they did in the US in the 70's (an offside line about half way inside each half) totally changed the dynamic of the game - for the worse.

[darkhat]

If soccer was my child, I'd name it abortion.

[pronk]

Because we have nukes and soccer is way too emotional. Too much drama surrounds worlds greatest game fellas

[southpaw74]

If soccer was my child, I'd name it abortion.

I want to like it but it's so boring if you can take a nap and it's the same score when you wake up then I think something doesn't add up.

[riffraff24]

Soccer is not big in America because the flopping is atrocious. No one wants to watch that shit.

[face]

baseball is awesome, so suspenseful. no time pressure.
i like soccer but it's only hard to score because you can't use your hands, which is weird, because as humans our hands are a key element to what got us evolving as a species. soccer is the weirdest sport to me by far.
hockey has the best rules.

[Goat Milk]

baseball worst sport by far

guys weigh 250 pounds pure fat

only a few mexicans and blacks can run fast around bases

guys drink beer and chew tobacco, probably even have a couple smokes during changeovers.

requires 0 athleticism.

guys are only strong. not fast, can't jump, can't do anything athletic except for a few players on each team.

they would die if they ran 2 minutes on the nba court. they would pull a hamstring immediately thats how out of shape they are

[Patrick McIrish]

Soccer? You mean organized kickball? It sucks. Nuff said.

[Killer_Demo]

soccer is for immigrants...only illegals here in cali play soccer

[Patrick McIrish]

Yep, immigrants and kids without any real athletic talent. Nobody else is going to waste their time playing this kind of "sport", especially if a Yahtzee game or dart board is open.

[FourLengthsClear]

Yep, immigrants and kids without any real athletic talent. Nobody else is going to waste their time playing this kind of "sport", especially if a Yahtzee game or dart board is open.

LOL.

[TR88]

Yep, immigrants and kids without any real athletic talent. Nobody else is going to waste their time playing this kind of "sport", especially if a Yahtzee game or dart board is open.

fail